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Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web - Project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, "this site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials."

Landmarks of American Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley - "Catalogue of an exhibition of rare books, manuscripts, maps, engravings, and photographs related to the literature of nature written about Western Virginia from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, on view in the Tracy W. McGregor Room, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, 27 April - 14 July 1997."

"Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection contains approximately 5,000 books and journal volumes with imprints between 1850 and 1877." Joint project of Cornell and the University of Michigan.

Smithsonian Press--Legacies: Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian
This virtual exhibit features over 250 objects from the National Museum of American History's collections, revealing the stories of how and why they were collected.

Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography, which attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. Over 1,700 electronic texts are included.